Articles
* Crackdowns 
* Shelters  
* Mental Illness 
* Poverty  
* About Homelessness
*Unemployment        *Panhandling    
* Housing and Welfare
*Agencies 
* Families and Children

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Reports

--Students become more aware of individual differences in culture, personality, and life styles.

--Students learn to evaluate difference sources of information (fiction and nonfiction books and newspaper articles).

--Students write thoughtful responses to reading.

--Students work collaboratively on projects to help the homeless.

--Students apply problem-solving skills and calculation skills

Students will be involved in various activities during their study of homelessness including:

--reading (newspaper and magazine articles, fiction and nonfiction books).

--internet research on organizations and agencies that deal with the problem of homelessness.

--class and group discussion

--project planning and implementation

--thoughtful reading responses

--creative writing

--math skills (statistics, percentages, predictions, graphing, etc.)

--daily response journals

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